Senior Aerospace Program Manager - Cross-Functional Leadership

Temple Health; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Axillon Aerospace is seeking an experienced Program Manager to coordinate programs across engineering, production, and supply chain, ensuring cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality targets are met. You will be the primary interface with customers and internal teams to drive lifecycle outcomes.

Responsibilities include managing budgets and milestones, identifying risks, maintaining documentation, and leading cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in project management methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to meet goals and deadlines.
• Financial and business acumen.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience interfacing with cross-functional teams including Finance, Supply Chain, Contracts, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for internal distribution of all project related documentation for review and revisions as required.
• Monitors project budgets; reviewing reports and project expenses to determine if allocated funds have been spent as specified.
• Follows established guidelines to manage completion of project milestones from beginning to end of lifecycle.
• Identifies project risks and provides solutions to minimize/eliminate risks, monitoring key project processes for compliance with objectives.
• Defines project’s objectives and oversees quality control for assigned programs and projects.
• Facilitates timely decisions to maintain program schedule and budget, while providing metric and milestone updates to upper management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to develop clear and detailed plans.
• Builds strong relationships with customers and develops a deep understanding of their objectives. Serves as primary customer contact for assigned program(s).
• Control scope, assess impacts of design or schedule changes, and manage customer change requests in accordance with contract terms.
• Support customer cost assist audits in support of the cost or pricing packages (DCMA/DCAA).
• Identify and implement process improvements in program execution, manufacturing efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitors contractual requirements for property/tool calibration, maintenance, storage and perseverance in adherence to company SOPs and Customer flows downs (FAR/DFAR).
• Leads and directs work for team of employees as defined by business needs.
• The primary duties of this job require administrative, non-manual work directly related to business operations involving responsibility for processes and policies of significance, evaluation of possible solutions and results of the work for which the employee is responsible and making recommendations and/or decisions accordingly using professional judgment.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance

Skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Financial acumen

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

SolidWorks

NX

Job description

Axillon Aerospace is seeking an experienced Program Manager to coordinate programs across engineering, production, and supply chain, ensuring cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality targets are met. You will be the primary interface with customers and internal teams to drive lifecycle outcomes.

Responsibilities include managing budgets and milestones, identifying risks, maintaining documentation, and leading cross-functional teams.